MGW time capsule

On April 18th, a ceremonial time capsule was placed in the garden of the former Bersohn and Bauman Hospital. The time capsule was intended to pass on knowledge of the Museum to future generations. The burial of the time capsule is also intended to symbolically initiate the construction of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum's physical headquarters, which will be located in the former Bersohn and Bauman Hospital building. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum's time capsule contains, among other things, the Museum's founding act and current statute, the first […]

Photo report | Off-site seminar "Cities of Jewish Uprisings – Będzin"

The first off-site seminar of the year, organized by the Education Department of the WGM, has concluded. On May 13-14, a group of 35 teachers visited Gliwice, Będzin, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. The trip began with a visit to the House of Remembrance of the Jews of Upper Silesia in Gliwice – a branch of the Museum in Gliwice, whose permanent exhibition showcases the history of the Jewish community and its contribution to the development of Upper Silesia from the Middle Ages to the present day. The museum is housed in a former funeral home built […]